(tasted from barrel; 100% vendange entier ; from 50-year-old vines): Deep red with ruby tones. Knockout nose offers kaleidoscopic scents of raspberry, blood orange, crushed rock and pepper complicated by torrefaction notes of cocoa and mocha and lifted by lilac and rose petal. Incredibly silky on entry, then expands and builds in the middle palate, with an element of noble vegetility adding another dimension to the flavors of fruits, flowers and stone. Superb acidity here, which Pierre Vincent says is due to "the concentration of all of the wine's elements." Finishes with outstanding peppery energy and lift: one of the longest wines of my November tour and nearly impossible to spit. There are just three barrels of this elixir: one new, one one year old and one two years old. Built for a long life in bottle.

There are three barrels of the 2013 Musigny Grand Cru that is entirely whole-cluster fruit. It has a tightly wound bouquet at the moment, detailed with expressive limestone and chalky notes permeating through the blackberry and raspberry fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with firm, dense tannins. This is a masculine Musigny with good backbone and symmetry, plenty of sappy black fruit and salinity on the aftertaste. Excellent. Don’t think about drinking it for several years…or else.